SpaceX Hyperloop pod breaks its own record with 355kph speed run

SpaceX might not be planning to build its own Hyperloop system, but Elon Musk’s company is leading the charge in terms of speed.

Depending on who you ask, the Hyperloop train concept is either the transport of the future, or a literal pipe dream.

However, two companies and dozens of engineering teams have attempted to bring the idea to fruition.

Helping to facilitate this is SpaceX, whose founder, Elon Musk, proposed the original Hyperloop idea of an electromagnetic propelled train contained within a vacuum tube for an incredibly fast alternative to flying.

While not engaged in building the networks themselves, SpaceX has helped to build a track to test the technology as part of a competition that was recently awarded to a team from the University of Munich.

While the German team achieved a speed of 321kph, Musk posted to Instagram that SpaceX and his other company, Tesla, wanted to see how fast its pusher pod would travel down the track without pushing the students’ own pods.